Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring, which I'm posting ahead of my keynote at the amazing JavaOne 2026 event here in sunny San Francisco, California! I love Piotr's latest post on using local AI models with LM Studio and Spring AI Did you see the new enhanced local variable declaration preview JEP? An amazing interview with Spring Boot team legend Moritz Halbritter Check out the new Spring release highlights page! Java 26 is here! Check out some of the amazing new features Do you use IntelliJ IDEA? You might like the new JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! #apachekafka #kafka

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. As I write this, I am preparing for a trip to Rust, Germany, for one of the best Java conferences in Europe: JavaLand, along with its new companion event, DevLand. It should be fun. Will you be around? If so, say hi. We have a lot to cover, so let's dive in. The Kotlin tutorial has been updated with information about Spring AI In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Neo4J developer advocate extraordinaire Jennifer Reif Want to secure your Spring Shell CLI-based applications…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Jennifer Reif, developer advocate at Neo4J, about graph RAG, graph databases, GraphQL, Neo4J, Spring Data Neo4J, and more. #neo4j #graphRag #AI #artificialintelligence

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this in an Uber en route to the airport to get to awsome Atlanta, GA, for Devnexus 2026! Who's goin'? You goin'? We - the Spring team - will be there in force! Come say hi at the boothes or come see our many, many talks there! Anyway, I've got a flight to catch so let's dive right into this wonderful week's roundup! this post is really cool: want to make your run-of-the-mill Spring Boot + Tomcat + JPA applications scale a lot higher? Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.6, and check out this wonderful…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I sit down with DevOps legend and industry analyst extraordinaire John Willis and talk about his new book Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith, and talk about the nature of the ecosystem, AI, the role of the developer in this exciting new world, and so much more! #ai #springboot #developers #artificailintelligence get the book begin your AI journey with Spring AI

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome (and oh-so-agentic) week in Spring! We've got a ton to look into, and I've got even more to prepare for next week's DevNexus event in Atlanta, GA, so let's dive right into it! (Be sure to say "hi" if you're going to be there, though!) You've heard of Agent Skills before, right? The new thing announced about a month ago by Anthropic as a way to conditionally add knowledge about your expectations for workflows, processes, conventions, etc.? Well, good news! In this video, DaShaun Carter, James Ward, and I look at the amazing support for building Agent…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the amazing Glenn Renfro about Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring AI, and much more — plus why you should definitely register to attend the amazing Devnexus event in Atlanta, GA!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year for billions of people around the world and to those who celebrate, Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year (新年快乐)! Or Happy Spring Festival (春节快乐)! (My favorite kind of festival!) In honor of the auspicious day, I asked the AI to generate an image of the fire horse, and it did not disappoint! Awesome! You know what else is awesome? So much amazing content from the community this week, so let's dive right into it! Nice! An article on using Spring AI on Baeldung. This is awesome! A…

Hi, Spring fans! I've been waiting for this episode for so long! Today, we're finally joined by my friend Richard Fichtner, who so took pity on my plight waiting for music to be added to the GraalVM that his company, XDev Software, created the music-maven-plugin, the best Maven plugin, ever! This episode was recorded live at the amazing JFokus 2026 event!